Tag: finance
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Oracle October 2025 Critical Patch Update Addresses 170 CVEs
Oracle addresses 170 CVEs in its final quarterly update of 2025 with 374 patches, including 40 critical updates. Background On October 21, Oracle released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2025, the fourth and final quarterly update of the year. This CPU contains fixes for 170 unique CVEs in 374 security updates across 29…
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Why Banks Are Embracing Blockchain They Once Rejected
Blockchain has finally made its way into traditional banking. For years, major banks wrote it off as a… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/why-banks-embrace-blockchain-once-rejected/
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Electronic Warfare Puts Commercial GPS Users on Notice
Interference with the global positioning system (GPS) isn’t just a problem for airlines, but for shipping, trucking, car navigation, agriculture, and even the financial sector. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/electronic-warfare-commercial-gps-users-notice
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‘PassiveNeuron’ Cyber Spies Target Orgs with Custom Malware
A persistent cyber espionage campaign focused on SQL servers is targeting government, industrial and financial sectors across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/-passiveneuron-cyber-spies-target-industrial-financial-orgs
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Meta Rolls Out New Tools to Protect WhatsApp and Messenger Users from Scams
Meta on Tuesday said it’s launching new tools to protect Messenger and WhatsApp users from potential scams.To that end, the company said it’s introducing new warnings on WhatsApp when users attempt to share their screen with an unknown contact during a video call so as to prevent them from giving away sensitive information like bank…
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PassiveNeuron Targets High-Profile Servers to Deploy Malware
A sophisticated cyberespionage campaign dubbed PassiveNeuron has emerged from the shadows after months of dormancy, with security researchers uncovering fresh details about its operations and attack methods. The campaign, first detected in June 2024, has resurfaced with renewed vigor, targeting government, financial and industrial organizations across Asia, Africa and Latin America with previously unknown malware…
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Stay Relaxed with Top-Tier Data Security
How Secure Is Your Organization’s Cloud Environment? When it comes to cloud security, do you find peace of mind elusive despite deploying comprehensive strategies? This is a common scenario faced by many high-stakes sectors such as financial services, healthcare, and travel. The solution lies in advancing your understanding of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and Secrets Security……
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US NSA alleged to have launched a cyber attack on a Chinese agency
Tags: access, attack, authentication, breach, china, ciso, cloud, communications, control, country, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, finance, hacker, infrastructure, international, login, malicious, mfa, monitoring, network, RedTeam, resilience, sans, service, spy, supply-chain, technology“NSA does not confirm nor deny allegations in the media regarding its operations. Our core focus is countering foreign malign activities persistently targeting American interests, and we will continue to defend against adversaries wishing to threaten us.”The Chinese post says the country “shattered the US cyber attack plot of stealing secrets and infiltration and sabotage,…
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US NSA alleged to have launched a cyber attack on a Chinese agency
Tags: access, attack, authentication, breach, china, ciso, cloud, communications, control, country, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, finance, hacker, infrastructure, international, login, malicious, mfa, monitoring, network, RedTeam, resilience, sans, service, spy, supply-chain, technology“NSA does not confirm nor deny allegations in the media regarding its operations. Our core focus is countering foreign malign activities persistently targeting American interests, and we will continue to defend against adversaries wishing to threaten us.”The Chinese post says the country “shattered the US cyber attack plot of stealing secrets and infiltration and sabotage,…
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White Label Crypto Bank Solutions: Building Digital Banking for the Blockchain Era
The growing demand for crypto-friendly financial services has accelerated the rise of white-label crypto bank solutions. These ready-made… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/white-label-crypto-bank-solutions-blockchain-era/
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White Label Crypto Bank Solutions: Building Digital Banking for the Blockchain Era
The growing demand for crypto-friendly financial services has accelerated the rise of white-label crypto bank solutions. These ready-made… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/white-label-crypto-bank-solutions-blockchain-era/
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Apple and Google challenged by parents’ rights coalition on youth privacy protections
The Digital Childhood Institute, which filed a complaint with the FTC, is part of a newer crop of online safety groups focused on shaping tech policy around conservative political beliefs. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/digital-childhood-institute-files-ftc-complaint-against-google-online-safety/
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Network security devices endanger orgs with ’90s era flaws
Tags: access, application-security, apt, authentication, breach, cisa, cisco, citrix, cloud, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, dos, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, firmware, flaw, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, injection, ivanti, jobs, linux, mitigation, mobile, network, open-source, penetration-testing, programming, regulation, remote-code-execution, reverse-engineering, risk, risk-management, router, service, software, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerability, zero-day2024 networking and security device zero-day flaws Product CVE Flaw type CVSS Check Point Quantum Security Gateways and CloudGuard Network Security CVE-2024-24919 Path traversal leading to information disclosure 8.6 (High) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2024-20359 Arbitrary code execution 6.6 (Medium) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2024-20353 Denial of service 8.6 (High) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance …
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Winos 4.0 hackers expand to Japan and Malaysia with new malware
Winos 4.0 hackers expand from China, Taiwan to Japan, Malaysia using fake Finance Ministry PDFs to spread HoldingHands RAT malware. Threat actors behind Winos 4.0 (ValleyRAT) have expanded their attacks from China and Taiwan to Japan and Malaysia, using PDFs disguised as documents from the Finance Ministry to deliver malware. Attackers employed another remote access…
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Europol dismantles cybercrime network linked to $5.8M in financial losses
Authorities arrested seven people allegedly involved in the operation and seized 1,200 SIM boxes containing 40,000 active SIM cards. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/europol-dismantles-cybercime-network-sim-boxes-fraud/
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Europol dismantles cybercrime network linked to $5.8M in financial losses
Authorities arrested seven people allegedly involved in the operation and seized 1,200 SIM boxes containing 40,000 active SIM cards. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/europol-dismantles-cybercime-network-sim-boxes-fraud/
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TDL 007 – Cyber Warriors Digital Shadows: Insights from Canada’s Cybersecurity Leader
Tags: ai, awareness, backup, breach, browser, business, cio, ciso, communications, conference, control, corporate, country, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, defense, dns, email, encryption, finance, government, healthcare, identity, incident, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, jobs, law, leak, linux, malicious, mfa, mitigation, network, organized, phone, privacy, ransom, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, risk-management, router, service, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, windowsSummary In this episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop interviews Sami Khoury, the Senior Official for Cybersecurity for the Government of Canada. With a career spanning 33 years at the Communication Security Establishment (CSE), Khoury shares how a coincidental job application blossomed into a lifelong passion for national security. Khoury emphasizes that modern…
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Prosper Market Data Breach Affects 17.6M Individuals
Breach Notification Service Details Peer-to-Peer Lending Marketplace Victim Count. Hackers appear to have stolen personal information pertaining to more than 17 million individuals from peer-to-peer lending marketplace Prosper, including Social Security numbers, contact information and some income and financial details, says the Have I Been Pwned breach notification service. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Prosper disclosed a data breach impacting 17.6 million accounts
Threat actors stole personal data, including names, IDs, and financial details from Prosper, affecting over 17M users. Prosper is a U.S.-based peer-to-peer lending platform that connects individual borrowers with investors. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Prosper allows people to apply for personal loans online, while investors can fund portions of those loans…
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Prosper disclosed a data breach impacting 17.6 million accounts
Threat actors stole personal data, including names, IDs, and financial details from Prosper, affecting over 17M users. Prosper is a U.S.-based peer-to-peer lending platform that connects individual borrowers with investors. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Prosper allows people to apply for personal loans online, while investors can fund portions of those loans…
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Prosper disclosed a data breach impacting 17.6 million accounts
Threat actors stole personal data, including names, IDs, and financial details from Prosper, affecting over 17M users. Prosper is a U.S.-based peer-to-peer lending platform that connects individual borrowers with investors. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Prosper allows people to apply for personal loans online, while investors can fund portions of those loans…
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CISOs face quantum leap in prioritizing quantum resilience
Tags: apple, attack, ciso, cloud, computer, computing, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, finance, governance, government, Hardware, healthcare, infrastructure, nist, resilience, risk, service, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, vulnerabilityState of migration: Encryption underpins the security of everything from healthcare records to government data and e-commerce transactions.But just 8.5% of SSH servers currently support quantum-safe encryption.TLS 1.3 adoption, currently at 19%, also trails older, quantum-vulnerable versions, according to a recent study by Forescout.Other experts paint a more optimistic picture of PQC deployment since NIST…
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CISOs face quantum leap in prioritizing quantum resilience
Tags: apple, attack, ciso, cloud, computer, computing, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, finance, governance, government, Hardware, healthcare, infrastructure, nist, resilience, risk, service, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, vulnerabilityState of migration: Encryption underpins the security of everything from healthcare records to government data and e-commerce transactions.But just 8.5% of SSH servers currently support quantum-safe encryption.TLS 1.3 adoption, currently at 19%, also trails older, quantum-vulnerable versions, according to a recent study by Forescout.Other experts paint a more optimistic picture of PQC deployment since NIST…
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CISOs face quantum leap in prioritizing quantum resilience
Tags: apple, attack, ciso, cloud, computer, computing, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, finance, governance, government, Hardware, healthcare, infrastructure, nist, resilience, risk, service, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, vulnerabilityState of migration: Encryption underpins the security of everything from healthcare records to government data and e-commerce transactions.But just 8.5% of SSH servers currently support quantum-safe encryption.TLS 1.3 adoption, currently at 19%, also trails older, quantum-vulnerable versions, according to a recent study by Forescout.Other experts paint a more optimistic picture of PQC deployment since NIST…
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Auction house Sotheby’s disclosed a July data breach
Sotheby’s reported a July 24 breach exposing customer and financial data; it took two months to assess the stolen information and affected individuals. Sotheby’s reported a data breach that exposed customer information, including financial details. The company discovered the security breach on July 24, and investigators spent two months determining what data was stolen and…
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Auction house Sotheby’s disclosed a July data breach
Sotheby’s reported a July 24 breach exposing customer and financial data; it took two months to assess the stolen information and affected individuals. Sotheby’s reported a data breach that exposed customer information, including financial details. The company discovered the security breach on July 24, and investigators spent two months determining what data was stolen and…